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phoneme

DEFINITIONS OF: phoneme

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n (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

Types:
allophone
(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
Type of:
phone, sound, speech sound
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
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